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Comment by specialist

4 years ago

> ...on a fast-moving project.

Very interesting.

Multiple times I've been on teams with spray and pray type developers who commit more frequently. Begetting more chaos and rework, of course. But great for apparent "velocity".

Whereas I tend to work slow and deliberate. Doing old timey stuff like unit tests and verifying my code works before committing. Which then puts the onus of resolving merge conflicts onto me. Which then delays my commits. Which means more even more merge conflicts.

A vicious cycle.

It'd be cool if better tooling, such as jamsync, helped mitigate the penalty for doing good work.